Kelly Kinney, University of Wyoming,
“Distinctive Ecologies: Moving From a Course in First-Year Writing to a
Workshop for Women in Prison”

Sarah Duncan, University of Wyoming,
“Passing Notes Through Walls: The Department of Corrections’ Response to the
Course”

Annie Osborn, University of Wyoming,
Bryce Peterson, University of Wyoming, and Alison Berreman Johnshon, University
of Wyoming, “Ecologies of Silence and Power: Incarcerated Women’s Responses to
the Course”

THE PRISON STORY PROJECT: ON THE ROW is a production of the
Northwest Arkansas Prison Story Project, which since 2011 has been sending
teams of writers into prisons, leading writing workshops with the inmates, and
then developing readers’ theatre scripts that are performed by professional
actors both for the inmates who write the material and for public audiences. In
the summer of 2016, the Prison Story Project undertook its most challenging
initiative: eight inmates housed on Arkansas’ Death Row met with Prison Story
Project workshop leaders one Saturday a month from May through September to
read and discuss imaginative literature and write in response to issues,
themes, and problems raised by it. ON THE ROW, the 70-minute script generated
by the initiative, was performed on Death Row for the writers on October 8 and
subsequently presented to large, enthusiastic public audiences in the weeks and
months following the initial performance.

This event is sponsored by the Brown Chair in
English Literacy at the University of Arkansas and by the CU Boulder Office for
Outreach and Engagement.

Cassandra Ellis, University of Alabama
at Birmingham, “Ecology Through Technology with Cyber Seniors: Fostering
Intergenerational Communication and Community”

Joyce Meier, Michigan State University,
“Global Ecologies as Framework: A Community Project Involving International
College Students and U.S. Third Graders”

Sarah Massey-Warren, University of
Colorado Boulder, Jack Williamson, Community Member Director/Coordinator, and
Frank Kogen, University of Colorado, “Developing Dialogical Edges for
Intergenerational Communication”

Summer Dickinson, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, “A Study of the Spatial-Rhetorical Function of objects of protest in Public Writing
Within the Collective Activism Surrounding Sacred Stone Protest Networks”

McKinley Green, The University of
Minnesota –Twin Cities, “Toward a Praxis of Listening: Rhetorical Listening as
Public Engagement in First-Year Composition”

Creating Sustainable Service Learning:
Navigating Institutional and Community Accountability

Chair:
Jonathan Isaac

Mary Fiorenza, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, “Managing, Collaborating, and Letting Go: How to Support
Instructor Innovations in Service Learning while Doing the WPA’s Job”

Julia Garrett, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, “Schools of Hope: Cooperative Tensions for Addressing the
Literacy Achievement Gap”

Kassia Krzus-Shaw, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, “When Resources Work Against You: Merging Two-Year and
Four-Year College Service Learning Conversations”

Jonathan Isaac, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, “Peaceful Transfer of Instruction: Turning a Pilot Course
into a Sustained Partnership”

A Community Writing Center’s Role in Catalyzing Community
Engagement and Understanding

Chair: Collett
Litchard, Salt Lake Community College Community Writing Center

Collett
Litchard, Salt Lake Community College Community Writing Center, Jesse Focht,
Salt Lake Community College Community Writing Center, and Melissa Helquist,
Salt Lake Community College Community Writing Center, “Employing Usability
Testing to Increase Community Engagement” (30-min presentation)

Alice Lopez,
University of Utah, and Justice Morath, Salt Lake Community College Community
Writing Center, “You Won’t Believe What’s In This Talk! Writing For Change in New Rhetorical
Landscapes” (30-minute presentation)

Building Community Partnerships to
Achieve Transformational and Lifelong Learning

Addicted to drugs, abusive
controlling pimps, the streets, short stints in jail, the cycle of death that
was her life, and on top of that, pregnant AGAIN. It was the end. The
only way out was death or prison, but that wasn’t her fate. Instead, she
went to school… and never stopped. On her journey, she became empowered
with knowledge of her culture and history. Today, Dr. Elaine Richardson shares
her story of sexual exploitation and other forms of bondage to bring awareness
to the plight of those entrapped in urban domestic human trafficking, and to
promote healing and empowerment through education.

This event is funded by the (IMPART) Implementation of
Multicultural Perspectives and Approaches in Research and Teaching Awards
Program, by the CU Boulder Office for Outreach and
Engagement, and by the CU Boulder Office for Diversity, Equity, and Community
Engagement.

Saturday, October 21

Overview Schedule

Coffee (8:00-8:30) This coffee break is
sponsored by the Colorado State University English Department.

Session E Concurrent Panels (8:30-9:45)

10 concurrent
panels

Session F Concurrent Panels (10:00-11:15)

10 concurrent
panels

Awards Lunch
and Keynote Address (11:15-12:45)

Award
for Outstanding College/Community Project in Community Writing (presented by Allen Brizee)

Award for
Outstanding Book in Community Writing
(presented by Beverly Moss)

Award for
Distinguished Engaged Scholar in Community Writing (presented by Eli Goldblatt)

Darrel Elmore, Florida International
University, “Virtual Village: Community Engagement in the Online Classroom”

Coffee and Snack Break (3:45-4:00)

“Why We
Strive”

Facilitated Closing Plenary &
Performance, with Playback Theatre West

Saturday, October 21, 4:00-5:30

Playback Theatre is founded upon the
idea that stories shape our lives and build community. For nearly 30 years, the
professional actors and musicians of Playback Theatre West have used this form to facilitate both personal and community
sharing, healing, and growth. Audience members share a story from their lives
and professional improvisers turn them into art, on the spot.

This unique and interactive not-to-be-missed
closing event will allow us to bring together participants from across the
conference, to explore shared themes and forge connections between our work,
our current/future challenges, and our shared visions. Playback’s fluidly dynamic, embodied forms
invite us to visualize more clearly the ways in which the dynamics behind our
conference themes write themselves upon the world and affect us as whole
persons and interrelating communities.

In this facilitated closing plenary,
conference participants will be invited to share moments or insights from the
conference, our lives, and our individual and collective work – which will be
“translated” into professional theater, movement, and song, in the moment and
on the spot.